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Show HAROLD . MAD E T B R , 20 2 HSM: With many of them yes, because I was a consummate lett r writer. I wr t (laughs). And I haven't, because we've gone on so many missions my wifi and I hav been on three missions, all in developing countries, to Vietnam, South Africa with the Zulus and Nigeria and so forth, so you tend to lose track when you're so far away from home and so _[unclear]_. So I had lost track with them, unfortunately. But we had a long correspondence. And I'm so grateful, too; the Lord blesses you, too, sometimes in indirect ways. When I was coming home, coming into Homburg one time from Cassema, from our military base, and I saw a woman who was exposing herself unnecessarily for my benefit up in the tower, up in the huge gate up there where people actually lived. I came in and I came to the office and I happened to tell Whipple, who was close to middle age, what had happened and he got me to one side and he said, "Madsen, I want you to promise me you will never go to that tower. Now you promise me." And I said, "I wouldn't do it anyway, but thanks for wanting to help me." So I met so many like that, who were anxious to protect this young man. So I found myself protected in unusual ways. BB: I know you have to go. You've had a lot of years now to think about it. What is your .. .larger question: how do you view your experiences? How do you think they've affected you? HSM: Totally changed my life in a most dramatic fashion. I had no confidence. I had a terrible inferiority complex and when I emerged from the military I felt there was nothing good that I couldn't accomplish. I had tremendous confidence and I knew that there were things that I needed to attend to, such as a mission, and university, that would provide me 83 |
